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Thanks, Monica, I'll check it out!

I have an ancestor, Peter McKenzie, who sometimes seems to appear on census info as Patrick.  I have been told that Peter and Patrick are so similar in Gaelic that the two names are sometimes interchanged or are synonymous with each other.  Can anyone clear that up for me?  He was from a pretty remote area of Scotland (Applecross, Torridon) so I suspect Gaelic was still in general use during his early lifetime (1820).

If I stumble across Potterland or potterland, I'll let you know.  Again, what can I say?  You really helped me!  I had asked someone to check that graveyard back about 2002, someone who said they'd do look-ups, and they didn't mention any Drummonds.  The trouble with all of these Williams and Davids is that trying to look them up always gets me into a discussion of William Drummond of Hawthornden or other Williams or Davids who were a lot further up the social scale than my Drummonds appear to have been.  I assume they were from the same family who descended from the Hungarian family of Andras I, the King of Hungary some 800 or so years earlier, though I can't be sure of that.  I know that a lot of MacGregors assumed the name once they were pretty much outlawed in Scotland, so maybe mine came from a source similar to that.  Hopefully, I won't go to the grave without findout out.  Take care!  Or, as they Drummonds used to say, "Gang warily!"

csc:

Potterlands reminds me of "Potter's Field."  Any idea what the Annan Cemetery is called or if there is also a "potter's field" around there, meaning a cemetery for indigents?  David, however, was supposed to have been a tailor in Annan so maybe he wasn't an indigent, though I do recall that he was not 100% well, having contracted something in India for which he was discharged from the army.  I had worked on this family a little bit up until 2004, but a large forest/brush fire burned a number of houses, including mine, and about ten years of genealogical work, computer and everything else I owned along with it.  I hadn't tried until recently, the "wind having been taken out of my sails" because of the fire, to duplicate any of the info I had.  I had seen an obit from somewhere in Dumfriesshire other than Annan for "Sgt. Drummond" and I know he had a wife at one time, Elizabeth Nicol, but I'm not sure whatever happened to her.  There was also a marriage at Annan between David's daughter, Isabella, and Michael (or possibly another name...record appeared erased) McCarron at an Annan church circa 1818, but all of that info was lost.  Michael McCarron was Catholic, so I assume any wedding was in a Catholic church in Annan.  I just recall from a distant Canadian cousin that he had been in the 42nd Regiment of Foot for about 23 years, from 1799 onward, but that cousin's address, etc., was lost, as well, in the fire.

James, William and Peter Drummond...okay, I'll work on that angle and see if there's any family connection.  The only child of David's (William's son) that I know of is Isabella, my ggg grandmother, who came to Canada, married name McCarron.  With an Irish surname, she is not in Donald Whyte's "Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada before Confederation."

Thank you, again, csc!  Much appreciated!